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the stories were syndicated all over the united states and the world. >> >> almost two years ago i decided it was time to write a fact based primer on a gay-rights for right of center voters for the subtitle of the book to challenge the religious right on its own turf and show that much of what they derisively called the gay agenda is consistent with fundamental republican and libertarian principles. and to show those center-right voters that not only are they not a voice in the wilderness represent a majority of rank-and-file voters. the first that i alluded to that many on the right don't understand that properly understood gay-rights are compatible with fundamental principles and the essence of the libertarian philosophy is one of louis and let live people are concerned with unalienable rights. the government does that give those rights depended on your religion, economic class, a gender, or theoretically your sexual orientation. that is the way it is supposed to be. some libertarians already get that who have a special obligation to te
the stories were syndicated all over the united states and the world. >> >> almost two years ago i decided it was time to write a fact based primer on a gay-rights for right of center voters for the subtitle of the book to challenge the religious right on its own turf and show that much of what they derisively called the gay agenda is consistent with fundamental republican and libertarian principles. and to show those center-right voters that not only are they not a voice in the...
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his parents had been born in the united states. his grand parents had come here when they were young people. joseph kennedy cared little about the countries whose grandparents had been born in. he had no desire to visit ireland or read about it. he was 100% american. and he couldn't quite understand why anyone would think of him as less than 100% american. his anger was the catholic church growing up. being irish catholic in boston, he needed an anchor. he was born in east boston is kind of local royalty. everyone knew his mother's family and his father's family and his father was a well-known prominent awesome politician and very well respected businessman. joseph kennedy went to boston. he went out with the prettiest girl in boston who also happen to be the mayor's daughter. whom he would later marry. everybody knew who he was. he was class president. again, he felt a part of the community. 10% of the student populations were catholics. in a large number of public schools. it was only when he graduated from harvard in 1912 that h
his parents had been born in the united states. his grand parents had come here when they were young people. joseph kennedy cared little about the countries whose grandparents had been born in. he had no desire to visit ireland or read about it. he was 100% american. and he couldn't quite understand why anyone would think of him as less than 100% american. his anger was the catholic church growing up. being irish catholic in boston, he needed an anchor. he was born in east boston is kind of...
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wake up in the mirror and say i can run for the united states senate. [laughter] a woman will be coming her hair in the mirror and say if i run for the school board i have to take three more courses and the desire to be credentialed while good in many ways and that is why the ph.d. women are very specific about what they think they need and what we have to learn is that we can transfer knowledge from one area to another and wheat and learn on the job and we can live on the edge of where you go. that is what i did when i became governor. i said how my going to do this? you learn and you have to trust your own potential plus a lot of people around you that fink you are great. >> i want to tell my favorite story about this which is i was interviewing people at google and trying to recruit more female executives and computer programmers and they did this survey of their applicants and came up with this amazing strategy which was if you advertise the job and listed physically what one needed for that job, eight things you needed to know for the job they real
wake up in the mirror and say i can run for the united states senate. [laughter] a woman will be coming her hair in the mirror and say if i run for the school board i have to take three more courses and the desire to be credentialed while good in many ways and that is why the ph.d. women are very specific about what they think they need and what we have to learn is that we can transfer knowledge from one area to another and wheat and learn on the job and we can live on the edge of where you go....
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is 30 days after he declared his candidacy in the caucus room at the united states senate. it is mrs. kennedy and president kennedy and then bradley and his wife antonia, who we all called toni. and one of the reporters who later became a public official of more than little consequence, jim cannon, who served presidents were. they decided that evening to make a tape about not his decision to run for the kind of person that he is, more than anything. to have a listen and then we will try to talk a little bit about it. >> one of the things that has sometimes been said about president kennedy is that he could be almost dispassionately analytical and talking about himself. welcome sergio? this is right as the presidential campaign is beginning. it is almost like he is a third-party. >> yes, but this dinner party conversation. it was how much he enjoyed politics. his passion for it. this is true of the tapes in the oval office as well. the delighted he took in political life. in his conception of the presidency, he was absolutely right. nineteenth century from the presidents did
is 30 days after he declared his candidacy in the caucus room at the united states senate. it is mrs. kennedy and president kennedy and then bradley and his wife antonia, who we all called toni. and one of the reporters who later became a public official of more than little consequence, jim cannon, who served presidents were. they decided that evening to make a tape about not his decision to run for the kind of person that he is, more than anything. to have a listen and then we will try to talk...
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he was convinced that democracy and capitalism would be taken from the united states. if the end united states entered the war, entered world war ii on behalf of the british. nothing was more important to him than making sure that there was no war and then keeping the united states out of the war and he did everything he possibly could. he violated critical. he didn't follow orders. he met secretly with german diplomats to be that he was convinced that as a businessman, she knew how to negotiate a deal, and that if he were put into a room with hitler, the two of them would negotiate a deal. he refused to see that hitler was a madman. that hitler didn't care about the german people. hitler had other features that drove him. he believed hitler would be a rational actor. he told the leader of the zionist community and the first president to israel. he said i'm going to go meet with him and work it out. he became so into churchill, and a british comic antiwar effort that the british opened a fire on him and spied on him called the kennedy and in the german archives there w
he was convinced that democracy and capitalism would be taken from the united states. if the end united states entered the war, entered world war ii on behalf of the british. nothing was more important to him than making sure that there was no war and then keeping the united states out of the war and he did everything he possibly could. he violated critical. he didn't follow orders. he met secretly with german diplomats to be that he was convinced that as a businessman, she knew how to...
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we have two big presses in the united states. in london we also have 115 of our authors and illustrators who publish for a long time and invite them to be part owners of the company. what this means is that they are as depressed the end of the year as the rest of us when there's not a tremendous amount of profit to share, but it often means terrible to thank them for everything that they do and is also a fabulous reminder to those of us who work , our authors and illustrators are really what it is all about. they're part of a creative decision making in the strategy of the company. and with this model we have to sort of bump along and we have been able to really publish some amazing books and authors. we try to do it globally wherever possible and whenever practical. and we are really, i think, an incubator in a way for the connectedness that is now affecting the whole industry because basically in order to get our print runs big enough to work and to have the company survive we have always had to work with each other. even thoug
we have two big presses in the united states. in london we also have 115 of our authors and illustrators who publish for a long time and invite them to be part owners of the company. what this means is that they are as depressed the end of the year as the rest of us when there's not a tremendous amount of profit to share, but it often means terrible to thank them for everything that they do and is also a fabulous reminder to those of us who work , our authors and illustrators are really what it...
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he is asserting the right of the president of united states to order the governor of mississippi to restore order in a perilous situation. meredith is in danger of his life. parenthetically he was inspired to register for the diversity of mississippi hearing the inaugural address of kennedy. then tom lane dover i wish we could hear the chickens. the previous phone call they talk about civil-rights but there politicians and then he says think you what you have done for the poultry program. he stifles a laugh he cannot believe the blowhard mentioned the poultry program. then we hear they're not being polite and go right into it. >> and the south at that time governor barnett's was sort of known as a bit of a dimpled. [laughter] and two years before during the presidential campaign one of the flashpoints in bald to nationalist chinese islands. right after this argument erupted barnett was out in the reporters asked him what about the to a palin's? the look around lost and said isn't that the two fellows that i put on the fish and game commission? [laughter] but if you hear the tape when barnet
he is asserting the right of the president of united states to order the governor of mississippi to restore order in a perilous situation. meredith is in danger of his life. parenthetically he was inspired to register for the diversity of mississippi hearing the inaugural address of kennedy. then tom lane dover i wish we could hear the chickens. the previous phone call they talk about civil-rights but there politicians and then he says think you what you have done for the poultry program. he...
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the person does not know there's a war for independence for the united states will win the war or george washington becomes president. you drop the knowledge of what happens and are immersed in the world and makes terrific tools because you get a different perspective of not knowing everything that has happened since. >> you don't know what happens the next week. >> some people don't care. it is a wonderful way reading a full newspaper to immerse yourself in the life of a particular moment. >> consumption and production goes over the four advertisements to give context. one struck me 1766 pennsylvania gazette the middle column annapolis datelined the first sons of liberty taking place in the capital. directly adjacent is the sale for the indentured servant. you have the juxtaposition with the sons of liberty to fight the tyranny and enslavement alongside the advertisement for the sale of the indentured servant. you get that in the book a lot. the newspapers are presented in the fashion you can wander and discover to find other interesting tidbits along separate lines of the featured news
the person does not know there's a war for independence for the united states will win the war or george washington becomes president. you drop the knowledge of what happens and are immersed in the world and makes terrific tools because you get a different perspective of not knowing everything that has happened since. >> you don't know what happens the next week. >> some people don't care. it is a wonderful way reading a full newspaper to immerse yourself in the life of a particular...
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and 20 years later his son was elected president of the united states. once again the outsider had performed magic and become the ultimate insider, the father of the president of the united states. and i thank you. and i'm delighted to take questions. [applause] thank you. there are, there is a microphone here so hold up your hand and don't speak until you get a microphone. i've been warned. >> thank you. wonderful speech. isn't it true that roosevelt cement him to england just -- sent him to england almost to get rid of him because he considered him such a pain in the neck in. >> in part. it's a great question. in part, but he also cement him to -- roosevelt didn't trust anybody, and roosevelt was a brilliant charmer and conniver. the greatest president we've ever had. but roosevelt always sent three people to do one job, played 'em against one another. and he believed that he needed kennedy, because kennedy would immediately break -- report to him directly rather than to the state department. and that kennedy was smart enough to be his eyes and his ear
and 20 years later his son was elected president of the united states. once again the outsider had performed magic and become the ultimate insider, the father of the president of the united states. and i thank you. and i'm delighted to take questions. [applause] thank you. there are, there is a microphone here so hold up your hand and don't speak until you get a microphone. i've been warned. >> thank you. wonderful speech. isn't it true that roosevelt cement him to england just -- sent...
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this is a common phenomenon in the united states and throughout the world. the three largest metropolitan areas in this country produce 18% of our nation's gdp, almost a fifth while including only 13% of america's population. the top line shows something that may be somewhat more surprising. it's the relationship between population growth between the years 2000 and 2010. and initial population density. and as you can see, until you get to the very top tenth population growth grows up steadily with density. at the start of the 19th century, we were leaving our enclaves on the eastern seaboard to spread out, to take advantage of the enormous wealth of the american hinterland. at the start of the 21st century, we're clustering in, we're clack moring to be close to one another. we see in boston the resurgence of a great city. we see it in new york and san francisco and seattle and chicago, all of these places, in the london and paris. we see the try um of the developed world cities. but the success of the city in the developed world is nothing relative to what's
this is a common phenomenon in the united states and throughout the world. the three largest metropolitan areas in this country produce 18% of our nation's gdp, almost a fifth while including only 13% of america's population. the top line shows something that may be somewhat more surprising. it's the relationship between population growth between the years 2000 and 2010. and initial population density. and as you can see, until you get to the very top tenth population growth grows up steadily...
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-- in the united states and started to do research in the '60s as a traveling salesman and became so fascinated that he was the proponent but was so fascinated he quit his job and dedicated his life to document every single person executed in the united states. when he started his work, there was estimates may be fibrous 6,000 people after the three decades he documented 16,000 he collected the sources and i will show you some of these documents. here is a picture from his home in alabama surrounded by the walls of his home with people who were executed. he went to small city governments, county government, local research to document his goal with every single person executed. >> one-person compiled the affirmation was the angus person to be executed in the united states everything of capital punishment one of the themes is the execution of children is it right to execute children? is a proper to execute those who are mentally ill? then is the factor of race and has spent statistically proven that race is a mitigating factor the cyrus of the themes you can draw out to here is george
-- in the united states and started to do research in the '60s as a traveling salesman and became so fascinated that he was the proponent but was so fascinated he quit his job and dedicated his life to document every single person executed in the united states. when he started his work, there was estimates may be fibrous 6,000 people after the three decades he documented 16,000 he collected the sources and i will show you some of these documents. here is a picture from his home in alabama...
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states, in fact, if not in title, and he was brilliant administrator, one has to be to run the kind of business he did. he was a brilliant administrator, helping washington win the war, a difficult team trying to organize the purchase and of arms and material because congress had no right to tax, had no powers to tax so hancock had to send embasaries to europe to get loans, and he was very successful at doing it. well, thank you, again, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >>> now joining us gwen on booktv is senator rand paul. his second book, "government bullies," senator, who are the bullies? >> guest: well all throughout your government, there's 41 different agencies who carry firearms now in the government. well, i don't mind the police or the fbi. well, the department of agriculture has a swat team, fish and wildlife have a swat team. in fact, the fish and wildlife raided gibson guitar with guns drawn, took all computer equipment and their wood, and they didn't let them know what they were accused for for a year, but when they accused them of something, it was breaking a foreign r
states, in fact, if not in title, and he was brilliant administrator, one has to be to run the kind of business he did. he was a brilliant administrator, helping washington win the war, a difficult team trying to organize the purchase and of arms and material because congress had no right to tax, had no powers to tax so hancock had to send embasaries to europe to get loans, and he was very successful at doing it. well, thank you, again, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >>> now joining...
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c-span: how was he able, at age 24, in 1861, to leave the united states and not fight in the civil war? >> guest: well, he came--he was from a wealthy family, and his father, by this time, was working as a merchant banker in london. he actually--morgan--both sides of his family came to america before the revolution, so they were really members of the american patriciate. you could buy--you pay for a substitute to fight in the civil war. you'd pay $300 and somebody else would go in your place, which is what morgan did. many other men did that as well it sounds to us like shirking, and certainly, many men who didn't fight felt guilty about it for the rest of their lives. it was, at the time, quite an acceptable thing to do in certain classes and for certain people, and surprising people didn't fight. in the james family, for instance, which i know a lot about, the younger two boys did go off to war, william and henry did not. morgan didn't. some of the adams's did and some of them didn't. it was interesting to see which--how it lines up. he and his father hated the idea of the civil war,
c-span: how was he able, at age 24, in 1861, to leave the united states and not fight in the civil war? >> guest: well, he came--he was from a wealthy family, and his father, by this time, was working as a merchant banker in london. he actually--morgan--both sides of his family came to america before the revolution, so they were really members of the american patriciate. you could buy--you pay for a substitute to fight in the civil war. you'd pay $300 and somebody else would go in your...
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and so he's president of the united states. the united states aren't united anymore. they are split. it's lincoln who takes the country and willing to push it to the fire. lincoln the odd man out may be odd decision which lead to the result that we had. and he recognizes it. >> so he actually says to lincoln what might be the most extraordinary document ever received. and the memo who he said you're not doing anything. lincoln says many things can be done. somebody must be done. i must do. it that's the phrase. lincoln lincoln is a genous one of the thing he's grifted is personnel manager. he knows he is talented and patriot. instead of leading a feud that could shattered the cabinet and lose service of the skilled politician. he's able to conciliate him and within few months he said to his wife, i'm glad the country has lincoln to lead us through the crisis and quote his is they is the best of us. it's difficult. see now the north prosecutes the war. activity not a unified let's talk about the third president who is extreme. not even close. wilson . >> why he is he e
and so he's president of the united states. the united states aren't united anymore. they are split. it's lincoln who takes the country and willing to push it to the fire. lincoln the odd man out may be odd decision which lead to the result that we had. and he recognizes it. >> so he actually says to lincoln what might be the most extraordinary document ever received. and the memo who he said you're not doing anything. lincoln says many things can be done. somebody must be done. i must...